https://joelalbinsson.com joelalbinsson Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:38:08 +0000 https://joelalbinsson.com en https://joelalbinsson.com/Reshaping-Boundaries Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:38:08 +0000 joelalbinsson https://joelalbinsson.com/Reshaping-Boundaries Reshaping Boundaries Participatory installation work in Kiruna 2 September 2023 Curated by Joel Albinsson, Hanna Bargheer,Victoria McCarthy, Linnea Wästfelt, Jonas van Kappel Artist&nbsp; &nbsp;Anna Zingmark&nbsp; Photos&nbsp; &nbsp;Linnea Wästfelt Reshaping Boundaries is a part of the Curera project's collaboration programe Learnings. <img width="4859" height="3239" width_o="4859" height_o="3239" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e60ef632eee371803d9c00d78fc3a4bd1537deb65205ded790bee3c3dd07b2d9/_MG_7063.jpg" data-mid="190252128" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e60ef632eee371803d9c00d78fc3a4bd1537deb65205ded790bee3c3dd07b2d9/_MG_7063.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/34c49d4d95d5ca4166c8c4c3bb3f87a1203ab4f4e91765fac2462f7880ae52e0/_MG_7049.jpg" data-mid="190252127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/34c49d4d95d5ca4166c8c4c3bb3f87a1203ab4f4e91765fac2462f7880ae52e0/_MG_7049.jpg" /> As part of the project Curera initiated by Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten, five students from the Master's Program in Curating Art at Stockholm University recently developed a proposal for the relocation of Kiruna’s public art to the new city park. While the planning process is long, and while this park will only materialise at some undetermined point in the future, we neither want to nor need to wait. In this soon-to-be sculptural area, the future artistic heart of Kiruna, a site-specific manifestation will prime the space for what is yet to come, breathing life into a construction site destined to be Kiruna’s new city park. The event will not merely mark the physical movement of sculptures but will also symbolize the bridging of past and future as well as the intersection of art and nature, while fostering collective aspirations of unity and community. Together with the artist Anna Zingmark (b. 1990, Gällivare) we will explore the area where the future park is being built, tracing its contours, marking its boundaries and imagining its future possibilities. The manifestation aims to create a sense of collective ownership of Kiruna’s new city park as a space for art, and thus we invite you to actively participate in this ceremonial inauguration. <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69844a5645cda7e1e6d47f3aeb3ef40ed62424a1609b583f0d498847bb0efe4b/_MG_6946.jpg" data-mid="190252122" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69844a5645cda7e1e6d47f3aeb3ef40ed62424a1609b583f0d498847bb0efe4b/_MG_6946.jpg" /> <img width="4263" height="2842" width_o="4263" height_o="2842" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5240b711936213098a5535512c51ffe7ac4a7f2544ef67223ee7bf6c73af2526/_MG_6987.jpg" data-mid="190252123" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5240b711936213098a5535512c51ffe7ac4a7f2544ef67223ee7bf6c73af2526/_MG_6987.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f947f26c3a41072ca6b3f73f5018d5f915728540a815ed25e666afb450ccd258/_MG_7003.jpg" data-mid="190252125" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f947f26c3a41072ca6b3f73f5018d5f915728540a815ed25e666afb450ccd258/_MG_7003.jpg" /> <img width="3220" height="4898" width_o="3220" height_o="4898" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe4a69cc90b6b9553f551e2b5d040733d82e03f50bd32696bb174c18b38eea52/_MG_7069.jpg" data-mid="190252129" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe4a69cc90b6b9553f551e2b5d040733d82e03f50bd32696bb174c18b38eea52/_MG_7069.jpg" /> https://joelalbinsson.com/empty-space-enclosed-dissolved Tue, 02 May 2023 20:33:43 +0000 joelalbinsson https://joelalbinsson.com/empty-space-enclosed-dissolved empty space / enclosed dissolved Public sound art installation in the covered terrace, Malmskillnadsgatan 47 / Tunnelgatan 2, Stockholm 18 May – 1 June 2023 Curator&nbsp; &nbsp;Joel Albinsson Artist&nbsp; &nbsp;Ellen Arkbro&nbsp; Documentation&nbsp; &nbsp;Elias Albinsson empty space / enclosed dissolved is curated by Joel Albinsson, as part of his graduation project from the International Master’s Programme in Curating Art at Stockholm University. <img width="2481" height="2481" width_o="2481" height_o="2481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9dab04a6bbc6e3bad5d6017f127bce7485c70c27c6de8a5bc9a3fab84c8d112/testMockup---form-fr-terrass-kopia-10.png" data-mid="181431924" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f9dab04a6bbc6e3bad5d6017f127bce7485c70c27c6de8a5bc9a3fab84c8d112/testMockup---form-fr-terrass-kopia-10.png" /> In the middle of the city, at the point where Tunnelgatan and Malmskillnadsgatan meet, a brick building gives way to an occluded passage, a covered terrace. This place is a stone’s throw away from the district’s main street, immediately adjacent to the infamous stairs that Olof Palme’s killer used to make their escape, and above popular Brunkebergstunneln. These sites, though their significance vary greatly in character, all hold a strong place in the public consciousness of the city as sites of transit and commerce, of memory, and the melding of striking architecture and historic feats of engineering. In contrast, the terrace itself is insignificant to most. Designed to fit a one-way escalator and a lift, it is a space of pure function which provides the city with much needed accessibility. It serves this purpose but does little else. There is no monumentality, no grandeur, no weight of history. It is next to, near, but ultimately a passive bystander to things bigger than itself. Still, it operates as a part in a vital system designed to ferry people up and down Brunkebergsåsen, the steep ridge that cuts across northern Stockholm. Here the terrace lies, tucked away. Appearing as a hole in the cityscape, not immediately visible unless you know where to look or if you approach it with purpose. The enclosed emptiness calls out for something to fill it and give it shape: to mark it, amending function with form. To prompt the city’s inhabitants to stop and consider what the city is made up of. The holes and pockets, the places that exist next to or in-between, the spaces that still serve a purpose and those that have been made into appendixes, traces of past functions. Ellen Arkbro responds to the call with a sonic intervention which alters our perception of this otherwise unremarkable space. As the work fills the passage, the space is at once condensed and expanded. The sound melds with the mechanical rhythmic beating of the escalator and the constant thrum of traffic from outside while providing an alternative, embodied mode of listening. The terrace is thus remade into sculptural form which unfolds and changes as one moves through it. The sound seeps through the cracks, flowing out in a suggestive invitation to come and discover, and to exist in this place for a while. <img width="1600" height="1200" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f1ba0ac4f23c549d6c7c01be9235468b6ef97e36f054406be3c28cd83c4efa9/img1_empty-space---enclosed-dissolved.jpeg" data-mid="181481595" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f1ba0ac4f23c549d6c7c01be9235468b6ef97e36f054406be3c28cd83c4efa9/img1_empty-space---enclosed-dissolved.jpeg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3e1c9a45996891c784aac0445d2b365d206ddbd4e052754df1a7c70c6005770/opening2_empty-space---enclosed-dissolved.jpg" data-mid="181481594" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3e1c9a45996891c784aac0445d2b365d206ddbd4e052754df1a7c70c6005770/opening2_empty-space---enclosed-dissolved.jpg" /> https://joelalbinsson.com/Pa-vag Thu, 08 Jun 2023 11:32:58 +0000 joelalbinsson https://joelalbinsson.com/Pa-vag På väg Proposal for the relocation of the public art of Kiruna to the new Kiruna City Park 2023 Curated by Joel Albinsson, Hanna Bargheer,Victoria McCarthy,&nbsp; Linnea Wästfelt, Jonas van Kappel At the request of Kiruna kommun Initiated by Konstfrämjandet Norrbotten as part of the programme series Curera <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ebc1da464f70ef94effdfc112d0b95568077dfaff31c661e99874bafc7390a40/IMG-20230302-WA0003.jpg" data-mid="184684346" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ebc1da464f70ef94effdfc112d0b95568077dfaff31c661e99874bafc7390a40/IMG-20230302-WA0003.jpg" /> <img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbcb5456c4179f877cac59d62b473372b4472be8d33325f415afbc07211e1bf2/IMG-20230302-WA0006.jpg" data-mid="184684338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/fbcb5456c4179f877cac59d62b473372b4472be8d33325f415afbc07211e1bf2/IMG-20230302-WA0006.jpg" /> In conjunction with the ongoing move of Kiruna and the development of the new city centre, much of the city’s public art collection is also in need of relocation. We take this as an opportunity to re-examine and recontextualise a collection that has been expanding alongside the city over the last century. In an almost organic manner, artworks have been added in layers to commemorate or adorn, each at a particular moment in time and place. Over time, these pieces have come to take on meanings beyond any initial intention. With the move, the specific place each of these works has had within the cityscape will be lost. This, however, presents a chance to take a comprehensive approach to the collection and provides an opportunity to frame and situate the artworks in direct dialogue with each other, in a manner akin to the staging of an exhibition. Still, this approach is not without its challenges. We are grappling with objects that have histories of being and becoming and that, in a sense, have themselves become historical. But in this new context, the artworks cannot be reduced to merely historical objects or physical manifestations of the memory of a place that no longer exists. Instead, the task lies in remaking the works as objects that can exist in the present moment and in the quotidian of their new place. While they undoubtedly represent traces and memories of old Kiruna, the emphasis in our treatment of them lies in the here-and-now or the direct presence of the art in the lived environment of the city. Public works of art are often expected to perform the complex task of remembering for us, of telling the story of our city, and of being the measure of time and place. In this proposal we have no intention of telling the singular story of Kiruna. Instead, we intend for these works to continue to be part of the multiplicity of narratives that make up the city. To balance the need for memory with the need to function in the present, we believe these works are not how we remember the city, but rather the threads of the city that we keep with us. We have made a selection of works that highlight three thematic threads that are present in the city’s collection. The works within each thread are placed in conversation both with each other and with their surroundings to allow for more nuanced understandings of each respective theme. These threads: Elements, Playfulness andDialogues are not to be understood as physical groupings or clusters of artworks within demarcated areas of the park, but rather as three distinct modes of interacting with the art intended to bring out a multiplicity of narratives and experiences. The selections, thematizations and placements that we are presenting here are only the beginning of the recontextualisation of Kiruna’s public art collection. Beyond&nbsp; the more overt forms of mediation and activations of the works that are being proposed, we are considering the art dynamic utterances within a living city. Like any other part of the city, as parts of the everyday life of Kiruna’s inhabitants, the artworks should consistently be used and renegotiated, and open to the construction of new meanings and of new relationships. New threads can and should be woven into the ones we have provided. https://joelalbinsson.com/En-Kor-Moter Mon, 01 May 2023 21:18:50 +0000 joelalbinsson https://joelalbinsson.com/En-Kor-Moter En Kör Möter Process and performance, presented at Accelerator, StockholmOctober 26 2022 Curators&nbsp; &nbsp;Joel Albinsson &amp; Hanna Bargheer Choreographer&nbsp; &nbsp;Linnea Sidén Rosberg En KörCharlie Börjeson, Christine Hellsing,Daniel Häll, Elina Hardell, Ellinor Bakhuizen, Eric Berrez, Harald Carlinger, Jacob Edström, Jakob Lundvall, Paul-Philip Mosulet, Sara Nyberg, Tilda Lundgren <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/483b240c483bb0efb0ca341940328df3656227e2033b17b19efbbe0689a2a2c2/Bild---En-Kr-Mter---Sv.png" data-mid="177322327" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/483b240c483bb0efb0ca341940328df3656227e2033b17b19efbbe0689a2a2c2/Bild---En-Kr-Mter---Sv.png" /> En Kör Möter&nbsp;is an examination of the art form of choral music, and a move towards the dissolution of its structures, expectations, and dynamics. Traditionally, choral music has been associated with religious spaces, written and performed with specific acoustic conditions and arrangement of singers in mind. What happens if we invite a choir into a room that does not follow the same logic, both architecturally and aesthetically: the art exhibition? Together with the vocal ensemble En Kör, we invite you to a choral experience where sounding bodies investigate their relationship to one another and to the space around them. The evening is a single moment of an ongoing process in which twelve singers test the boundaries of their craft through the interaction with a new form of experiential space. En Kör Möter is an experiment in new practices, new ways of sharing, making and listening; presenting a possible future of choral music. Accelerator has a collaboration with the International Master’s Programme in Curating Art at Stockholm University. The students create events in connection to themes that Accelerator wishes to highlight in the exhibition programme. The curators for this event are Joel Albinsson and Hanna Bargheer. En Kör Möter is presented in connection to Tori Wrånes’ exhibition Big Water. https://joelalbinsson.com/Humanitet Mon, 01 May 2023 20:49:42 +0000 joelalbinsson https://joelalbinsson.com/Humanitet Humanitet Publication and artwork for Konstfrämjandet. Printed in 100 numbered copies, first distributed during Almedalsveckan, Gotland.July 2022 Curator&nbsp; &nbsp;Joel Albinsson Artist&nbsp; &nbsp;Astrid Braide Eriksson Author&nbsp; &nbsp;Mattias Irving Print copies available from Konstfrämjandet Digital edition available here <img width="7743" height="10358" width_o="7743" height_o="10358" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83e241fad5cd26625185b6f470734c041408bf506516fe28cc90b5aaf8fd4492/framsida.png" data-mid="181587705" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83e241fad5cd26625185b6f470734c041408bf506516fe28cc90b5aaf8fd4492/framsida.png" /> <img width="9315" height="7278" width_o="9315" height_o="7278" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7332a95cc8da6c8c0a12126c9552cc96f58d970a70fa488dc03d4500d85ef7b6/baksida---kopia-5.png" data-mid="181746681" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7332a95cc8da6c8c0a12126c9552cc96f58d970a70fa488dc03d4500d85ef7b6/baksida---kopia-5.png" /> Den ursprungliga Humanitet publicerades hösten 1933 som en direkt reaktion mot Hitlers maktövertagande och det växande nazistiska hotet. Det var ett konstnärligt upprop mot fascism, krig och diktatur; och en manifestation för humanitet, mänsklighet och demokrati. Året därpå följdes Humanitet av tidskriften Mänsklighet. Förlaget betecknade då publiceringen som ett djärvt försök, men uttryckte trots det en förhoppning om att fler nummer skulle tryckas. Redan efter den andra utgåvan stoppades distributionen. Motståndets risker ansågs vara för stora. Den Humanitet du nu har framför dig är också ett försök. Ett försök att 2022, 89 år senare, återigen manifestera för demokrati och mot fascism. Att bemöta den nya höger som nu sveper över världen och som riskerar att kasta omkull demokratins principer. Det är ett försök som görs med medvetenheten om att inte bara fascismen, utan också samhället och våra bildvärldar, ändrat och ständigt ändrar skepnad. Sätten vi beskriver, visualiserar och förstår fascism måste därmed också anpassas och framför allt: motståndet mot fascismen måste ske genom ett försvar för människovärdet. Det här är ett försök till en Humanitet för vår tid. Joel Albinsson https://joelalbinsson.com/Tunnel-Vision Mon, 01 May 2023 18:11:12 +0000 joelalbinsson https://joelalbinsson.com/Tunnel-Vision Tunnel Vision Exhibition in Tysta Marigången in Stockholm, with twelve artists from the Royal Academy of Art 4 – 12 December 2021 Curators Joel Albinsson, Hanna Bargheer, Yul Cho, Jeanette Gunnarsson, Victoria McCarthy, Katinka Saarnak, Ifra Shariq,&nbsp;Johanna Rüskamp, Laus Østergaard Participating artists Theres K Agdler, Akay &amp; Olabo,Christine Dahl Helweg-Larsen, Astrid Eriksson, Sara Ekholm Eriksson,Charlotte Landelius, Linnea Lindberg,&nbsp; Mehregan Meysami, tm, Lior Nønne Malue Hansen, Manos Saklas, Aske Thiberg Photos &nbsp; Jean Baptiste BérangerGraphic design &nbsp; Mikaela Cederholm, Emilia Velazquez Mospinek Project sitetunnelvision2021 <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/211c1812520dc44f60699bf6408654a24562c2245aed914a61b08a952055469f/_DSF5583.jpg" data-mid="177303130" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/211c1812520dc44f60699bf6408654a24562c2245aed914a61b08a952055469f/_DSF5583.jpg" /> <img width="5906" height="5906" width_o="5906" height_o="5906" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd407bf7956a65e91e56c529fdd8105aad01f75d0745b8096572f2ce31377a63/instagram_1.jpg" data-mid="177302505" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd407bf7956a65e91e56c529fdd8105aad01f75d0745b8096572f2ce31377a63/instagram_1.jpg" /> tunnel vision // tunnel:vision // tunnelvision // ˈtʌn(ə)l visionTysta Marigången is a sensory threshold, a liminal passage between states of mind; a place and a non-place. It is a walk-through passage located in the center of Stockholm, and yet barely used and unknown to most. What is this tunnel’s purpose? Has it been here all this time? Will it still be here in the future? Where will I end up if I enter? Through passages, cities create ways of going out and coming back in. ‘Tunnel Vision’ serves as a portal into a different way of understanding public space and our role in it, a different state of Stockholm. Here, the hidden struggles, the bubbling tensions of the city are brought to the surface. The tunnel is both cold and quiet, but it can also be loud with hopes, disappointments, and the echoes of passing cyclists. For the Nobel Week Lights, we invite visitors to Tysta Marigången - to witness the contradictions, ask questions and experience the multiplicity of this space. Through multimedia works, light sculptures, performances, sound installations, ‘Tunnel Vision’ invites you to explore artworks inspired by the Anthropocene, friendship, loneliness, borders, and the power of poetry. Tysta Marigången is a passageway located in the center of Stockholm, near T-Centralen. Spanning the distance between Tegelbacken and S:ta Clara. <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d351e3b18b33e1bfd9b07b5695f9c464dcbd26891b0fa6a715518863f0776d3d/_DSF5629.jpg" data-mid="177315349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d351e3b18b33e1bfd9b07b5695f9c464dcbd26891b0fa6a715518863f0776d3d/_DSF5629.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/545d7ed129972dc76a88018c2f8efcaa6e9a6b87b8464248eb60398ffba93af4/_DSF5569.jpg" data-mid="177315691" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/545d7ed129972dc76a88018c2f8efcaa6e9a6b87b8464248eb60398ffba93af4/_DSF5569.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/989e607cbdcc471893b2730642d30565d6e2fa72526fe66dce9bdb9d40537d97/_DSF5669.jpg" data-mid="177315356" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/989e607cbdcc471893b2730642d30565d6e2fa72526fe66dce9bdb9d40537d97/_DSF5669.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="4000" width_o="3000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e062e763bc569b5025adaa243a6099603722095648d9e085dcc9835b2a38065/_DSF5700.jpg" data-mid="177316205" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e062e763bc569b5025adaa243a6099603722095648d9e085dcc9835b2a38065/_DSF5700.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="4000" width_o="3000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/baeff329cbae5897f2f0fb05d74ae9336ae6d1eca590f017192c3ee967112cc7/_DSF5552.jpg" data-mid="177315385" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/baeff329cbae5897f2f0fb05d74ae9336ae6d1eca590f017192c3ee967112cc7/_DSF5552.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d997dc7fe026d97b477bee9b318a72dd5eb46b1b6f350e72230d0cbdeffb6502/_DSF5608.jpg" data-mid="177315462" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d997dc7fe026d97b477bee9b318a72dd5eb46b1b6f350e72230d0cbdeffb6502/_DSF5608.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dcbc1ca14b2796399e6c9b7a35ae3bedd3ccf4a8cb180a7b68f6b26ded255898/_DSF5648.jpg" data-mid="177316011" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dcbc1ca14b2796399e6c9b7a35ae3bedd3ccf4a8cb180a7b68f6b26ded255898/_DSF5648.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21583fa115b08fab0edbed008db4e5efd62be0e47a9a4fb9e8aaabe5480d5336/_DSF5675.jpg" data-mid="177316043" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21583fa115b08fab0edbed008db4e5efd62be0e47a9a4fb9e8aaabe5480d5336/_DSF5675.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c96a8e9b28ef5a067b88227558e6316d3cbf2b3e1e6ecc6fc3199a1c3dead2e8/_DSF5770.jpg" data-mid="177316216" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c96a8e9b28ef5a067b88227558e6316d3cbf2b3e1e6ecc6fc3199a1c3dead2e8/_DSF5770.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa93e5f2468283a80a81ac74fe98c8013e31fb3ab4402898a4972e7462df1f7d/_DSF5795.jpg" data-mid="177316237" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa93e5f2468283a80a81ac74fe98c8013e31fb3ab4402898a4972e7462df1f7d/_DSF5795.jpg" /> https://joelalbinsson.com/Sounding-Matters-1 Sun, 11 Jun 2023 20:45:45 +0000 joelalbinsson https://joelalbinsson.com/Sounding-Matters-1 Sounding Matters: Exploring the Potentials of Sonic Leakage in Contemporary Art Spaces Master’s thesis International Master’s programme Curating Art Department of Culture and Aesthetics Stockholm University 2023 Author&nbsp; &nbsp;Joel Albinsson Supervisor&nbsp; &nbsp;Ricardo Atienza Full text available here Abstract Contemporary art spaces are typically structured in accordance with a visual paradigm. However, sound has the capacity to leak into other spaces and does not conform to visual logics. Still, sounding artworks are frequently presented in these spaces. Thus, the aim of this thesis is to examine the effects of leaking sounding works within art spaces with an emphasis on the sensory experience of sound, and to further the understanding of how this can be operationalised curatorially. The research is focused on these questions: How is sound operating to produce experiential effects in the respective exhibition situations? What are the transformative potentials of sounding works in art spaces? What are the curatorial implications of these effects? The study investigates two cases, the exhibitions Mother Courage and Her Children (2022) and Undamming Rivers (2022) that both provide examples of the interactions of sounding works in contemporary art spaces. The material is gathered through observation and analysed using the theory of performativity. The analysis defines a set of terms that describe different experiences of sounding works in the art spaces. Furthermore, these effects are shown to operate transformatively on the art event as aspects of a contemporaneous production and reception of the art. The concluding discussion elaborates on the curatorial implications of these terms in the curation of sounding works to show how sonic leakage facilitates definition of space, movement through space, and a layering of experience. https://joelalbinsson.com/Top-page Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:57:17 +0000 joelalbinsson https://joelalbinsson.com/Top-page https://joelalbinsson.com/Bottom-page-copy Tue, 02 May 2023 20:03:05 +0000 joelalbinsson https://joelalbinsson.com/Bottom-page-copy Contact ︎︎︎&nbsp;Email ︎︎︎&nbsp;Instagram Joel Albinsson (b. 1997, Sweden) is a Stockholm/Jönköping based curator whose practice engages with the temporal and spatial qualities of sounding art, as well as with questions regarding democracy, urbanities, and the power over the city. Albinsson is currently active as the curator for the municipality of Jönköping, focused on public art. &nbsp;He has a master’s degree in curating art from Stockholm University, and also holds bachelor’s degrees in cultural studies and art history from the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm University respectively. Recent independent curatorial endeavours include the public sound installation empty space / enclosed dissolved&nbsp;(2023), the performance piece En Kör Möter (2022) at Accelerator in Stockholm with co-curator Hanna Bargheer, and the publication Humanitet (2022) for Folkrörelsernas konstfrämjande. &nbsp; Joel Albinsson (f. 1997, Sverige) är en Stockholm/Jönköpingsbaserad curator vars praktik kretsar kring den ljudande konstens rumsliga och tidsliga kvaliteter, såväl som kring frågor gällande demokrati, staden och särskilt makten över staden. Albinsson är verksam som konstintendent för Jönköpings kommun med fokus på offentlig konst. Han har tagit masterexamen i curating art vid Stockholms universitet och är också examinerad kulturvetare och konstvetare vid Göteborgs universitet respektive Stockholms universitet. Bland hans senaste självständiga curatoriella projekt finns den offentliga ljudinstallationen empty space / enclosed dissolved (2023), performanceverket En Kör Möter (2022) på Accelerator i Stockholm tillsammans med medcuratorn Hanna Bargheer samt publikationen Humanitet (2022) för Folkrörelsernas Konstfrämjande. Curatorial projects Reshaping Boundariesempty space / enclosed dissolvedPå vägEn Kör MöterHumanitetTunnel Vision Writing Silencing Storms Sounding Matters